{"id":1358,"date":"2015-06-21T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2015-06-21T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:21:59","slug":"education-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/21\/education-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evaluating the education of our children is a difficult thing to do.\u00a0 This blog has noted in passing the problems inherent in the current testing approach in the United States (<a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/17\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brettdickerson.net\/the-hostile-workplace-of-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\">educator&#8217;s blog post<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/20\/american-parents-are-slackers\/\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>, where parents climb the walls to sneak answers to their children.\u00a0 <em><strong>AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Walaa Hussein now publishes a report on similar behavior in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2015\/06\/egypt-high-school-exams-cheating-shaw-ming-social-media.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Egypt<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>High school exam seasons in Egypt are often accompanied by exam leaks \u2014\u00a0a phenomenon that has become a major challenge to the successive Egyptian governments, despite several attempts to confront it. The government transports exam questions in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cairodar.com\/77979\/%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84\" target=\"_blank\">military helicopter<\/a>\u00a0from the printers affiliated with the Ministry of Education, whose locations remain\u00a0a secret. This procedure is done under the auspices of the Egyptian armed forces to prevent the leaking of the exams. Also, the Ministry of Education has started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahrirnews.com\/news\/details.php?ID=437367\" target=\"_blank\">using electronic detectors<\/a> to search the students for mobile phones to prevent the exam questions from being leaked on social media just minutes after the exam starts. The Ministry of Interior is working to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alwafd.org\/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%80%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7\/862050-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9\" target=\"_blank\">secure students\u2019\u00a0conduct<\/a> during examinations, amid a phenomenon of mass cheating. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As to what is behind the cheating phenomenon, Mogheeth said, \u201cThere is a flaw in the educational system, which relies on end-of-year exams. This tempts students to obtain [the questions] illegally because it means avoiding making a year\u2019s worth of effort. Modern education systems, however, are based on grading students on the various subjects [more than once] throughout the academic year. Exam leaks and cheating will continue as long as the system remains as is\u00a0\u2014\u00a0giving the student only one opportunity [to sit for a test]. Egyptian universities cannot accommodate all those [who graduate with] high school diplomas. This complicates matters further and makes the student worry about reserving a seat in any university and by any means, regardless of the [student\u2019s] abilities and skills.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose we could at least be pleased by the students&#8217; ingenuity.\u00a0 But the problem remains: how does one evaluate students?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evaluating the education of our children is a difficult thing to do.\u00a0 This blog has noted in passing the problems inherent in the current testing approach in the United States (here and this educator&#8217;s blog post) and India, where parents climb the walls to sneak answers to their children.\u00a0 AL \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/21\/education-evaluation\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}